We are busy planning some new short trips for 2023/4 and we’d love your feedback please!!

These ideas are all for short trips (4 days or 1 week) which means less time off work, closer destinations so shorter and cheaper flights but still with very different cultures, foods, languages, geography and always maintaining our link with local Deaf schools.

As always, trips will welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, D/deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing and will always include a Sign Language interpreter and trip leader from VoluntEars.

Please tell us what you think: sms/whatsapp: +44 7713 752124 or email your thoughts to: contact@voluntears.info

Montenegro

Trip highlights (Google them!):

• Help in a deaf school
• Beautiful coastline and beaches
• Day trip to mountains (they’re v close to the sea!)
• Kotor Old Town – one of the oldest and most beautiful cities on the Adriatic sea
• San Giovanni Fortress (for an amazing view of Kotor and the coastline)
• Visit Lovcen National Park (for an amazing view of the mountains)
• Black lake – rent a boat or kayak
• Ostrog Monastery – built into a cliff

Where is it

On the Adriatic Sea, just south of Croatia

How many days

4 days (long weekend)

Trip dates

Any time between March and September

Weather

18 to 26 degrees C

Flight duration

3.5 hours from the UK

Average flight price

Normally £3-400 from the UK

Baku, Azerbaijan

Trip highlights (Google them!):

• Help in a deaf school
• Baku is 28m below sea level!
• Lie in a mud volcano!
• Maiden Tower
• Day trip to Shahdag to see the mountains
• Stunning mix of unusual architecture

Where is it

On the Caspian sea

How many days?

1 week

Trip dates

September or October

Weather

Warm, sunny, mainly dry

Flight duration

Around 7-8 hours including a stopover, from the UK

Average flight price

Normally around £5-600 from the UK

Istanbul, Turkey

Trip highlights (Google them!):

• Help at a deaf school
• Visit the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia Mosque
• Explore the Sultanahmet District
• Walk the ancient city walls
• Obelisk of Theodosius
• Topkapi Palace
• The Grand Bazaar (the oldest covered market in the world)
• Bosphorus Strait (bridge between Europe and Asia)

Where is it

Where Europe meets Asia, Istanbul is in north west Turkey on the Bosphorus Strait

How many days?

4 days (long weekend)

Trip dates

Spring or autumn

Weather

Warm, sunny, mainly dry

Flight duration

Around 4 hours from the UK

Average flight price

Normally around £400 return from the UK

Sicily, Italy

Trip highlights

• Help at a deaf school
• Explore beautiful colourful towns along the coast
• Visit Mount Etna – Europe’s highest and most active volcano
• Eat delicious food in tavernas by the sea
• Visit a vineyard
• Relax on sandy beaches & swim in the sea

Where is it

At the southern tip of Italy, in the Mediterranean sea

How many days?

4 days (long weekend)

Trip dates

Spring or autumn

Weather

Warm, sunny, dry

Flight duration

Under 3 hours from the UK

Average flight price

Around £200 return

Have your say!

–> Which trip/s are you most interested in (or not), and why?

Your feedback will help us decide which trips to run next. 

Please email us or sms/whatsapp: +44 7713 752124

Thanks a lot!